Francesco Filelfo, Man of Letters

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Investigating the oeuvre of the Italian humanist Francesco Filelfo (1398-1481), this collection is the first to make extensive use of the critical editions of Filelfo’s numerous writings – in particular of his 'Epistolarium', published in 2016 by Jeroen De Keyser, who also edited this volume. Uncovering a lot of new information not previously mentioned in the literature on Filelfo, twelve specialized scholars draw attention to long-neglected material, shedding new light on Filelfo’s intellectual endeavors and his literary journey between Greek and Latin. This illuminating collection offers historians of ideas as well as literary scholars and Neo-Latinists new inroads into Filelfo’s vast oeuvre, and through it to the world of Quattrocento humanism. List of Contributors vii Introduction: a Century of Filelfo Studies / Jeroen De Keyser 1 Greekness Filelfo and the Byzantines / John Monfasani 13 Hellenism and Cultural Unease in Italian Humanism: the Case of Francesco Filelfo / Han Lamers 22 Philosophy Filelfo’s Plato: Always Already There / Guy Claessens 45 Epicureanism and Stoicism in Francesco Filelfo’s Letters: a Reconsideration / Jan Papy 65 Histories Filelfo and the Spartans / James Hankins 81 Filelfo and the Writing of History / Gary Ianziti 97 Rivalry Erudition, Emulation and Enmity in the Dedication Letters to Filelfo’s Greek to Latin Translations / Noreen Humble 127 Francesco Filelfo as a Writer of Invective / David Marsh 174 Form La métrique latine de Filelfo: épopée, satire, élégie, ode / Jean-Louis Charlet 191 Filelfo, Cicero and Epistolary Style: a Computational Study / Tom Deneire 239 Bibliography 271 Index Nominum 304